
Adrenaline and the Inner World
An Introduction to Scientific Integrative Medicine
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This accessible work is the first in more than seventy-five years to discuss the many roles of adrenaline in regulating the "inner world" of the body. David S. Goldstein, an international authority and award-winning teacher, introduces new concepts concerning the nature of stress and distress across the body's regulatory systems. Discussing how the body's stress systems are coordinated, and how stress, by means of adrenaline, may affect the development, manifestations, and outcomes of chronic diseases, Goldstein challenges researchers and clinicians to use scientific integrative medicine to develop new ways to treat, prevent, and palliate disease.
Goldstein explains why a former attorney general with Parkinson disease has a tendency to faint, why young astronauts in excellent physical shape cannot stand up when reexposed to Earth's gravity, why professional football players can collapse and die of heat shock during summer training camp, and why baseball players spit so much.
Adrenaline and the Inner World is designed to supplement academic coursework in psychology, psychiatry, endocrinology, cardiology, complementary and alternative medicine, physiology, and biochemistry. It includes an extensive glossary.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Inner World
- 2. The “Automatic Nervous System”
- 3. The Arbiters of the Inner World
- 4. The Rest of the Cast
- 5. Stress as a Scientific Idea
- 6. Distress
- 7. Stress in Evolutionary Perspective
- 8. Dysautonomias
- 9. Tests for Dysautonomias
- 10. Treatments for Dysautonomias
- 11. Drugs and the Family
- 12. The Future: Scientific Integrative Medicine
- Glossary
- References
- Index